scholarly journals Cross-sections of unknotted ribbon disks and algebraic curves

2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Kyle Hayden

We resolve parts (A) and (B) of Problem 1.100 from Kirby’s list [Problems in low-dimensional topology, in Geometric topology, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 2 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997), 35–473] by showing that many nontrivial links arise as cross-sections of unknotted holomorphic disks in the four-ball. The techniques can be used to produce unknotted ribbon surfaces with prescribed cross-sections, including unknotted Lagrangian disks with nontrivial cross-sections.

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (07) ◽  
pp. 1460024
Author(s):  
Kishore Marathe

In recent years, the interaction between geometric topology and classical and quantum field theories has attracted a great deal of attention from both the mathematicians and physicists. We discuss some topics from low-dimensional topology where this has led to new viewpoints as well as new results. They include categorification of knot polynomials and a special case of the gauge theory to string theory correspondence in the Euclidean version of the theories, where exact results are available. We show how the Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant in SU (n) Chern–Simons theory on S3 is related via conifold transition to the all-genus generating function of the topological string amplitudes on a Calabi–Yau manifold. This result can be thought of as an interpretation of TQFT as topological quantum gravity (TQG). After a brief discussion of Perelman's work on the geometrization conjecture and its relation to gravity, we comment on some recent work on black hole radiation and its relation to mock moonshine.


These volumes contain the proceedings of the conference held at Aarhus, Oxford and Madrid in September 2016 to mark the seventieth birthday of Nigel Hitchin, one of the world’s foremost geometers and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. The proceedings contain twenty-nine articles, including three by Fields medallists (Donaldson, Mori and Yau). The articles cover a wide range of topics in geometry and mathematical physics, including the following: Riemannian geometry, geometric analysis, special holonomy, integrable systems, dynamical systems, generalized complex structures, symplectic and Poisson geometry, low-dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, Higgs bundles, geometric Langlands programme, mirror symmetry and string theory. These volumes will be of interest to researchers and graduate students both in geometry and mathematical physics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (5) ◽  
pp. 3853-3870
Author(s):  
Lawrence Smolinsky ◽  
Daniel S. Sage ◽  
Aaron J. Lercher ◽  
Aaron Cao

2010 ◽  
pp. 2101-2163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gunnells ◽  
Walter Neumann ◽  
Adam Sikora ◽  
Don Zagier

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